[Bug gold/10698] gold 2.20.51.0.1.20091009 fails to link linux kernel 2.6.31.1

[sedat dot dilek at gmail dot com]

------- Additional Comments From sedat dot dilek at gmail dot com  2009-10-21 
07:47 -------
Hi,

I have already reported that issue to LKML [1] and am still in conversion with 
Ian.
Leaving out "--emit-relocs" or unsetting CONFIG_RELOCATABLE kernel-config
variable let gold compile Linux-2.6.31-rc5-git3.

This weekend I could track down the problem to (with binutils-cvs20091017):
GOOD: 2.6.29-rc8 and 2.6.30
BAD: upstream (up-to 2.6.32-rc5-git1), 2.6.31, 2.6.31-{rc5..rc1}

If you look at the kernel-sources the "incompatibility" arosed between 2.6.30
and the merge-window resulted in 2.6.31-rc1.

With upstream kernel, (un)setting CONFIG_RELOCATABLE and binutils-2.20.51
snapshot tarball from 21-Oct-2009 gold still fails:
...
  LD      drivers/built-in.o
  LD      vmlinux.o
  MODPOST vmlinux.o
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.devinit.text+0x387c): Section mismatch in reference from the
function ezx_pcap_probe() to the function .init.text:set_irq_noprobe()
The function __devinit ezx_pcap_probe() references
a function __init set_irq_noprobe().
If set_irq_noprobe is only used by ezx_pcap_probe then
annotate set_irq_noprobe with a matching annotation.

  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/generated/compile.h
  UPD     include/generated/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
ld: internal error in convert_types, at ../../gold/gold.h:294
make[3]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
...

Also the binutils-gold (2.20-1) package from Debian/sid fails.

I prepared an archive with all involved input files, see [3].

Hope this get fixed, soon.

IMHO, it would be a good idea to get in contact with the responsible maintainers
in Linux-kernel.

The bug is *NOT* fixed.

- Sedat -

[1] [binutils-gold][2.6.31-rc5-git3] ld error w/ LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --emit-reloc
(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/5/288
[2] ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-2.20.51.tar.bz2
[3] http://files.iniza.org/for_iant/

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